• @TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
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    4410 months ago

    I love how it sais that South Africa has the highest and Egypt has the lowest screen time of Africa, while they are the only countries in Agrica with Data.

  • @Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    3610 months ago

    I mean, 8 hours just for work. If you count all screens I probably spend like 14 hours a day starring “on screens”.

    • @library_napper
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      210 months ago

      Yeah, not sure how the average is less than 8 hours. That’s insane back-to-nature primitivism shit

    • @xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
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      2210 months ago

      China does have a lot of agricultural and manufacturing workers who aren’t on computers all day. And they have some pretty poor rural areas. But I’m calling bullshit on Japan’s numbers. Tokyo looks like Blade Runner at night but and the office culture is famous for long hours but no one is looking at screens? Get the fuck outta here.

      • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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        210 months ago

        Go to any major city in China and you will see thousands of people on their scooters, smoking cigarettes and playing mobile games. Chinese people are absolutely glued to their phones.

  • @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    2110 months ago

    Japan is only 3:45 hours? How? Are those salarymen working 12hrs per day in front of their computers not counted? Or is it offset by kids not allowed to use smartphones at school?

    • @rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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      I think japan still uses a lot of paper in the administrative side of things, that could bring it down too. Still seems like a data collection issue based on how much of an outlier it is.

  • @kraftpudding@lemmy.world
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    I don’t think this these numbers include work at all. Because none of the articles the graphic is based on mention work at all, nor do their sources it seems. And also, the sources talk about “time spent connected to the internet”, so streaming would count, but not TV, which is also a screen. So average real screen time could be even higher.

    • @library_napper
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      210 months ago

      Yeah I dont understand this. Only thing I can think is that news is more TV in the north and more phone based on south?

  • @library_napper
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    510 months ago

    Wtf how is the high end 9 hours? That’s just my time at work. It doesn’t even include the commute, reading the news, and talking with friends.

  • pruwyben
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    510 months ago

    Japan: the lowest screen time in Asia and Oceania (also the world)

      • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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        210 months ago

        One also wonders how the questions asked were phrased. And how they interpreted responses of, “E, chotto . . .” and other “telling the truth would be rude” circumlocutions.

        • @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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          110 months ago

          Yes, this is also true. I had a job in a Tokyo suburb going house to house surveying households (read: stay at home wives and retirees) and my god, getting them to answer questions face-to-face was like pulling teeth.

          Once we anonymized the surveys however, damn were the honest lol. Especially about the foreigner (me 😂)

  • @SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    410 months ago

    I think people that see these numbers as low does not realize that tons of people don’t work in front of a screen full-time, and the average would include children and the elderly

  • @library_napper
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    310 months ago

    So, TV isn’t a screen according to this, right?